MARSHALL, Lucy Bell - Carver - Putnam

AV No. 101 – M. Morris Morton, the third living son of William and Lucy Marshall was born April 22, 1866.  He was for several years a farmer and stock raiser.  He married Laura Radcliff of Greencastle where he has been engaged in the grain and building supply business for 15 years under the firm name of Marshall & O’Hair.  He is a man weighing about 160# quiet, unassuming, not much of a mixer, but a conservative, successful and respected business man.  He is a staunch Republican.  He was made Mason shortly after his 21st birthday now having membership in Temple Lodge, Greencastle.  He is characterized by his close friends of whom he has many as a “Man among Men.”  They have one daughter, Eugenia who married Harold Comstock, a successful merchant of Monroe, Michigan. – kbz

Source: North American Family History – Marshall and Related Families

AV No 100 – Lucy Belle Marshall, youngest daughter of William and Lucy Marshall was born Dec 23, 1859. She married Morton Carver, a young farmer of Morton Indiana Nov 26, 1885, a man of fine personality and sterling worth in that community.  Nine years later he was thrown from a horse, dying of his injuries.  Later Belle rented the farm, purchased a home in Greencastle, a college town where Edgar Marshall Carver, the only child, entered high school, later graduating as a mechanical engineer at Purdue University at Lafayette.  He immediately became associated with the Dodge Power Transmission Company of Mishawaka, Indiana and is still with this company.  He was a commissioned Capt. Serving in the Engineers’ Division at Washington DC and later in Chicago in the World War.  He married Miss Avalyn Parks of Indianapolis. They have a little daughter, Carolyn and reside in South Bend, Indiana.  The door of Belle’s home in Greencastle is always open to her friends and relatives. – kbz